{"product_id":"coward-playsone-hay-fever-the-vortex-fallen-angels-easy-virtue-9780413460608","title":"Coward Plays:One - Hay Fever; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; Easy Virtue","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCoward Plays:One - Hay Fever; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; Easy Virtue\u003c\/strong\u003e by Coward, Noël. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780413460608.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis first volume in the Coward Collection contains four plays written within a two year period when Coward and the century were still in their 20s. The volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley, Cowards first biographer. Hay Fever, a comedy of bad manners, concerns a weekend with friends of the Bliss family, who have all been invited independently for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead. The Vortex was a controversial drama in its time, introducing drug-addiction onto the stage at a time when alcoholism was barely mentioned. Fallen Angels, which is written for two star actresses was described as degenerate, vile, obscene, shocking - the second half of the play is entirely taken up with an alcoholic duologue between the two women. Easy Virtue is an elegant, laconic tribute to a lost world of drawing-room dramas, no other writer went more directly to the jugular of that moralistic, tight-lipped but fundamentally hypocritical 20s society. \"He is simply a phenomenon, and one that is unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history\" Terence Rattigan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44428038996021,"sku":"ByrdShop_0413460606","price":34.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780413460608_9fba3f29-6468-4a31-b54b-71bd013b12bc.jpg?v=1784265269","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/coward-playsone-hay-fever-the-vortex-fallen-angels-easy-virtue-9780413460608","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}